Motivational Quotes

Memory

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.